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39:1  “Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer?
39:2  Can you number the months that they fulfill, and do you know the time when they give birth,
39:3  when they crouch to give birth to their offspring and are delivered of their young?
39:4  Their young ones become strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.
39:5  “Who has let the wild ass go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,
39:6  to which I have given the steppe for its home, the salt land for its dwelling place?
39:7  It scorns the tumult of the city; it does not hear the shouts of the driver.
39:8  It ranges the mountains as its pasture, and it searches after every green thing.
39:9  “Is the wild ox willing to serve you? Will it spend the night at your crib?
39:10  Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes, or will it harrow the valleys after you?
39:11  Will you depend on it because its strength is great, and will you hand over your labor to it?
39:12  Do you have faith in it that it will return and bring your grain to your threshing floor?
39:13  “The ostrich’s wings flap wildly, though its pinions lack plumage.
39:14  For it leaves its eggs to the earth and lets them be warmed on the ground,
39:15  forgetting that a foot may crush them and that a wild animal may trample them.
39:16  It deals cruelly with its young, as if they were not its own; though its labor should be in vain, yet it has no fear;
39:17  because God has made it forget wisdom and given it no share in understanding.
39:18  When it spreads its plumes aloft, it laughs at the horse and its rider.
39:19  “Do you give the horse its might? Do you clothe its neck with mane?
39:20  Do you make it leap like the locust? Its majestic snorting is terrible.
39:21  It paws violently, exults mightily; it goes out to meet the weapons.
39:22  It laughs at fear and is not dismayed; it does not turn back from the sword.
39:23  Upon it rattle the quiver, the flashing spear, and the javelin.
39:24  With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground; it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
39:25  When the trumpet sounds, it says ‘Aha!’ From a distance it smells the battle, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.
39:26  “Is it by your wisdom that the hawk soars and spreads its wings toward the south?
39:27  Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?
39:28  It lives on the rock and makes its home in the fastness of the rocky crag.
39:29  From there it spies the prey; its eyes see it from far away.
39:30  Its young ones suck up blood, and where the slain are, there it is.”